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>>19821845
and finney said $10mil a coin.

both off by magnitudes of at least ten.

>>19819461
>>19818549
I find it extremely annoying that so many references omit this part about Bitcoin, when it is one of its fundamentals.

Even early cypherpunks understood that, seeing as how the VERY FIRST response Satoshi got, after releasing the very first working software version, was a $10 million dollar Bitcoin prediction from Hal Finney (pic)

>>19035188
Just another random anon here with another random guess.

I'm convinced it's Hal Finney.
Reading through the cypherpunks newsgroup, the VERY FIRST message posted about bitcoin after Satoshi released the very first working software version, was Hal making a 10 million dollar bitcoin prediction.
pic

This was after an entire day of no one replying to Satoshi (it seems, based on my search results of the cypherpunks newsgroup).

He basically got ignored for an entire day, then this guy, who has previously participated in similar discussions on said newsgroup on topics like hashcash and decentralized currency, suddenly makes a 10 million dollar prediction.

Combined with the possibility that Satoshi supposedly mined a million BTC, and how all Satoshi activity stopped and Hal Finney is also dead... I'm pretty convinced.

Refutations are welcome though (things like conflicting timezones or speech patterns, out just timelines not matching etc).